Picks of the Month
January
To a Lone Sailor
'...sail steady, sail always, sail true.'
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- 11234 reads
December
Because Of The Color (Short Story)
I am standing on the corner of Main and Second when I suddenly become self-conscious of my sweater.
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- 3558 reads
The Goodbye
No smile or words. Rigid, unyielding, for that last photograph. His arm, slack, around my shoulder. I turn from the shot. Hide my tears, knowing he...
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- 3831 reads
November
Rooks
Rooks Past the backbone’s second hump and hollow hawthorns, a foam of brackish snow and distant light. I heard them first, a row of hanging rooks –...
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- 6230 reads
September
Something You'll Have To Live With
Part One
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- 4604 reads
Tenebris Interlucentem (into the darkness… light)
'into the darkness… light' a winter Wednesday open-mic in a dingy pub in Pontefract or was it Halifax? I don’t rate poetry but if the beer’s good and...
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- 2653 reads
August
Illicit Exercise
I’ve taken to running around the field behind my house - you might not call it running - but there is an element of privacy the field affords which...
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- 10149 reads
July
Pins (21)
Image: Wikimedia commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pin-N_III_3150-IMG_8986.JPG
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- 16 comments
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- 5712 reads
June
Pad Life 12: Summer's Here!
It's toes weather... Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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- 11211 reads
Iriecat
First garden tremble on kiss soft paddy paws to spine shake yawls I held you, I hold you your father You circle chased a squirrel, roared with joy on...
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- 7081 reads